Every summer there’s a snowfall in the sea. Instead of drifting down, it falls up, and rather than flakes of ice, it’s made of innumerable diaphanous eggs that rise from the bottom of the ocean to the ...

For flatfishes, you’d think things would always be looking up. These quick-change artists have eyes on top of their heads, yet marvelously mimic the surfaces they sit on. This prompted Clayton Louis ...

Flatfish offer an evolutionary puzzle: How did one eye gradually migrate to the other side? By Carl Zimmer A flounder looks like a hallucination of a fish. Its body is flat as a pancake, its head ...